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thinking you’re old

bmp or bust

I don’t think that performing as part of a band is against the spirit of the competition, as long as the devil is still being judged according to his individual contribution. Or would you require him to perform a capella if he was in a singing competition?

And anyway, the devil went before Johnny - if Johnny objected or wanted his own accompaniment, he could have said so.

Skin heals, but grease stains might never wash out.

Dual wield the mugs.

PS: alamy.

An interesting thing about atoms is that all atoms of the same isotope are fundamentally identical. In other words, they’re not just the same as far as we can tell. They are absolutely the same. This challenges human intuition about identity, because while an atom can be said to have a specific history, there is literally no trace of that history in the atom itself. If God swapped two atoms of the same sort, only he could ever know.

Consider software. You downloaded your copy of My Little Pony: The Movie from a particular source, but if that source turned out to be disgusting you wouldn’t have any urge to delete your copy and then download a new copy from someone else. Atoms ought to be considered like software in this way.

(This is relevant because “eating” involves breaking food down into individual molecules.)

Yeah and I didn’t support it, but if he wants to flip-flop then I’m not going to look a gift house in the mouth.

decline into fascism

I think you are mixing things up. The Biden administration is the one attacking the right to free speech. Trump may not have the right motivations but I’m happy as long as he moves in the right direction.

It was a smart move by TikTok, and not something so dishonest that it would burden my conscience if I were in charge of making it.

If the Democrats hadn’t wanted to give Trump free publicity, they shouldn’t have supported an unpopular law that went into effect the day before Trump was inaugurated.

Truly an enemy of the people.

Ponies, here?

I assume they’re erect but are they end to end or side to side?

Those messages do make me feel bad, but not bad enough to turn my ad blocker off.

I’m technically capable of blocking ads but that doesn’t mean that I am also morally entitled to access content provided to me on the condition that I will see the ads. I suppose the fact that these websites only ask me to disable my ad blocker rather than refusing me access entirely implies that they give consent for me to keep using the ad blocker, but would I really stop using it if they did refuse access but I could bypass that restriction?

What blew my mind is this. What is the sum of the infinite series

1, -1, 1, -1, ...

One answer is to look at it like this:

(1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + ... = 0

Another answer is to look at it like this:

1 + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) + ... = 1

But then it gets weirder. What if you add two of the series together like so:

1 + -1 + 1 + -1 + ...

____ 1 + -1 + 1 + ...

(Please ignore the underscores. They’re just there because otherwise Lemmy messes up the whitespace.)

All the terms cancel out except that first 1 again. But this time it’s the sum of two of these series, which means that the sum of one series is 0.5 and somehow not an integer.

The correct answer is that you’re not allowed to add up infinite series like this so that’s why you get contradictory results if you try.

Men are only emotional about the important things.

wage slave

I think a lot of the people working that much make more money than they actually want to spend. The few that I know do. (They invest most of it.) They still want to have even more, but in the way that an athlete wants to set a new record.

But if you don’t signal, how will the commoners know to make way?

There’s a scene where someone (Homer?) plans to go to Moe’s but changes his mind after he opens the door and sees that the interior is dark and everyone inside looks miserable. I can’t remember the episode so I can’t post a screenshot. Imagine that I did.

Mistake? He came, didn’t he?